Monday, 20 May 2013

First Prints

These are the first digital prints I made based on pre-existing
collages in 2009/2010.

I had originally talked to Patrick Bulas, who is the
printmaking technician at the University of Saskatchewan and an accomplished
printmaker, about perhaps scanning and converting some smaller collages into
larger digital prints on rag paper and asked for his assistance and the use of
the printmaking studio’s large Epson printer.
Patrick agreed to scan the collages I gave him and to my surprise went
ahead and printed one on a sheet of rag paper as a test. He printed Collage #73 and I was happy to see
it pinned to the wall of the digital lab one day when I went in. I was really pleased with the results, as was
Patrick.

In the Spring of 2011, again with Patrick’s help, we printed
the collages seen here on 22X30” BFK Rives rag printmaking paper. The BFK has decaled edges so had a few
problems with the edges picking up black ink smudges from the printing
heads. The Epson printer in the
printmaking area had seen a lot of use from students by then so was getting a
bit finicky. Also the BFK Rives is not
coated and I later had an Epson technician assure me that I would get much
better color results if I used the coated rag paper developed for the printers
although I was pleased with the color and the print quality.

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Bricolage and Digital Memory is a collaborative project between Tim Nowlin (Principal Investigator) and Jefferson Smith funded by an Insight Research Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The project intends to provide a deeper understanding of the ways in which the web, as a cultural artifact, influences our sense of self, our memories and our relationship to art; how the digital experience transforms the traditional views on these issues; and from this to gather a glimpse of where digital existence may be leading the human cultural aesthetic over the next half century.